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"raping was another game of mine" tee hee hee.

If you are a fan of Mr. Show, and haven't watched the series with the commentaries on, I highly recommend it. Last year i rewatched all 4 seasons with the commentaries and was fucking howling the entire time. So funny.

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Re: The Cathode Ray Mission: The Misc. Television Thread

Peep Show is consistently brilliant, and I can't recommend Garth Marenghi's Darkplace enough. If you like Inbetweeners, check out Misfits too, which gets bonus points for using it's whole first season run to build up to a really great use of a Blur song.

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Does anyone watch Merlin? Is it just me or is there a lot of gay chemistry between Merlin and Arthur in that show? It's almost too much. The guy who plays Merlin has absolutely no chemistry with all the female leads and loads of chemistry with Arthur. I am really enjoying this show though -- it's nice to see a really good fantasy series on TV that's not sci-fi.

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Originally Posted by amyzzz

Does anyone watch Merlin? Is it just me or is there a lot of gay chemistry between Merlin and Arthur in that show? It's almost too much. The guy who plays Merlin has absolutely no chemistry with all the female leads and loads of chemistry with Arthur. I am really enjoying this show though -- it's nice to see a really good fantasy series on TV that's not sci-fi.

I watched the first season and thought it was pretty cool. And you're right about them having good sexual chemistry.

Originally Posted by canexplain

I try to be politically pc more than most here: As a dude, anyone who could put a shark up a gals pc body, is pretty creepy, different and interesting. Just saying big time ..... cr****

Re: The Cathode Ray Mission: The Misc. Television Thread

Global Frequency is a thoroughly enjoyable comic about an international independent network of variously talented sleeper agents, who are handpicked and activated as threats arise. Kinda like a cooler Thunderbirds, really, except they deal with notably more horrifying government secrets.

What makes it interesting is that it's kind of ready-made for TV - only Miranda Zero and her operator are constants from one story to the next, since the sleeper agents only step up as their particular talents as required. On the one hand, it loses a little in that there's no continuity to keep you tuned, but on the other hand the reader never knows if the hero of the hour is going to get the job done, or even survive. An actually pretty good pilot was made before, featuring Michelle Forbes as Zero, but it didn't quite spark, and it wasn't picked up.

I'd love to see the Big Wheel story adapted, but man, there is absolutely no way they'd ever do that villain justice on TV.

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This weekend I house sat for some friends who had the entire season of Modern Family on their tivo. They had previously tried to show me an episode of it, and I found the dad Phil way too annoying, like trying to be a less subtle Michael Scott. But I started watching it again Friday night and ended up staying in all weekend and watching the entire season. LOVED it. It's like Arrested Development, just not as good. AD-lite. But still much better than most of the other shit out there. And I ended up liking the dad. He's more an older, dumber Seth Cohen (The OC) than Michael Scott. Can't wait for season 2.

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Originally Posted by tessalasset

This weekend I house sat for some friends who had the entire season of Modern Family on their tivo. They had previously tried to show me an episode of it, and I found the dad Phil way too annoying, like trying to be a less subtle Michael Scott. But I started watching it again Friday night and ended up staying in all weekend and watching the entire season. LOVED it. It's like Arrested Development, just not as good. AD-lite. But still much better than most of the other shit out there. And I ended up liking the dad. He's more an older, dumber Seth Cohen (The OC) than Michael Scott. Can't wait for season 2.

You pretty much nailed it there. It's definitely AD-lite. I don't understand all the love.